11 English Honors 2025

Who wrote The Great Gatsby?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

What year was The Great Gatsby Published

1925

What is the Time Period of The Great Gatsby

1920s

Allusion

when the author mentions person/idea from culture, literature, or history

Simile

A comparison using "like" or "as"

Dramatic Irony

when the audience knows something that the characters do not know.

Bootlegger

someone who makes or sells illegal liquor

Gatsby and Nick live where?

West Egg

Example of Foil in Great Gatsby

Myrtle v. Daisy

the Flashing green light symbolizes?

Gatsby's aspirations and hopes to win Daisy back.

Who is the Narrator of the Great Gatsby?

Nick Carraway.

"The American Dream"

Every American has the same opportunity to achieve wealth and happiness.

Eupheism

a word used in place of saying something that may seem too explicit.

Who is the narrator of the play The Glass Menagerie?

Tom Wingfield

Who is the author of the Glass Menagerie?

Tennessee Williams

What is an example of foreshadowing in The Glass Menagerie?

Tom tells Jim that he did not pay the light bill because he won't be there

How is Laura given the nickname Blue Roses?

Jim O'Connor gives her this nickname b/c she has pleurosis in high school.

What does the fire escape symbolize in TGM?

represents how their living situation is comparable to a fire to escape.

Amanda tells her magazine subscribers that they are "Christian martyrs!" This is an example of:

Hyperbole

What happens when Laura and Jim O'Connor are left alone after the power goes out?

they dance; they break the glass unicorn; they kiss.

What is the definition of assonance?

close repetition of vowel sounds within words

What is the definition of anaphora?

when an identical word or group of words is repeated in successive verses.

What is the definition of synecdoche?

when a part represents the whole object or idea.

What is the definition of consonance?

the repetition of identical consonant sounds.

Flapper

Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion

Speakeasy

Illegal bar that served liquor during Prohibition

18th amendment

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages

19th amendment

Gave women the right to vote

The Great Migration

Movement of African Americans from the South to the North for jobs.

Harlem Renaissance

A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished

Roaring Twenties

the decade of the 1920's which got this nickname because of the times prosperity and excitement

Nick Carraway

Daisy's second cousin, Tom's college friend, Jordan's love interest, works in bonds, and Gatsby's neighbor

Daisy Buchanan

Nick's cousin, Married to tom, Gatsby's love interest, very wealthy lifestyle, lives in East Egg(old money)

Tom Buchanan

Daisy's Husband, has an adulterous affair with Myrtle, Makes racist comments, arrogant but not ignorant.

Jay Gatsby

Name from birth is James Gatz, lives a fabricated life, born to a poor family in the Midwest. was not educated enough to attain the inheritance left for him by Dan Cody.

Jordan Baker

Famous Female golfer, Friend of Tom and Daisy, starts dating nick

Myrtle Wilson

Tom's mistress, married to George Wilson, is gifted a dog by tom. Dies in a car accident when Daisy is driving Gatsby's car

Mr Wilson (George wilson)

Married to Myrtle, worked as a mechanic, desperate for money at the end in order to move myrtle and himself to the west, and shot Gatsby

Meyer Wolfsheim

Gatsby's friend, based on the real-life person Arnold Rothstein (fixed the 1919 World Series), and involved in organized crime

"Owl Eyes"

Only one of Gatsby's guests who tries to know Gatsby for who he really is, inquisitive; not shallow like Klipspringer, only other person besides nick and Mr. Gatz who shows up to Gatsby's funerl

(Ewing) Klipspringer ("The Boarder")

represents the majority of Gatsby's party guests. shallow relationship with Gatsby.

Gatsby's father (Henry C. Gatz)

Shows up at end, tells nick about how motivated and organized Gatsby was growing up

Pammy

Tom and Daisy Buchanan's 3-year old daughter.

Juxtaposition

two things are placed together but greatly contrast each other. Ex: West egg v. East Egg

Valley of Ashes symbolism

The mortal wasteland of America at large as well as the individuality immorality of the human heart

Eyes of T.J. Eckleburg

-faded billboard in the valley of ashes

-symbolize God staring down on the bad morals of the 1920's

Clock that almost breaks

desire to stop time and return to past

Connotation

The implications or suggestions that are evoked by a word or phrase. Ex: Oxford man, signifies status and intelligence in The Great gatsby

when was the Glass menagerie published

1944

Genre of Glass menagerie

Drama; Memory play with autobiographical elements

Memory plays contain?

High drama, overblown understanding of symbolism, lack of realism

Tone of "The Glass Menagerie"

Sarcastic and bleak

Themes of Glass menagerie

longing, nostalgia, regret, disillusionment, purpose, meaning, and belonging

Tom Wingfield

Shoe shop clerk, given nick name "Shakespeare" by jim since he writes poetry, sarcastic attitude, follows his fathers footsteps by leaving at the end.

Laura Wingfield

Tom's sister, Based on Tennessee William's actual sister, rose, who went through a lobotomy, plays and polishes a glass menagerie, Often listens to the Victrola, had a crush on Jim in high school

Amanda Wingfield

Mother of Tom and Laura, had 17 gentlemen callers in her youth

Jim O' Connor

The gentlemen caller, knew tom and Laura in high school, works with tom in the shoe shop, Offers to pau for classes so that he and tom can advance from their job positions, hes engaged, brings reality to Laura, "I am disappointed but I am not discouraged"

Mr. Wingfield

not present, left Amanda to raise the children alone, Ironically, his absence is probably what created the most disorder in the family

Fitzhugh boy

the boy Amanda wishes she married. She idolized him

Play devices

Lighting, Sound effect, Screem Images and legends

The Glass menagerie symbolism

symbolizes how laura escapes reality. Idealism, reflects how the family is composed of very different personalities and how their relationships are fragile

The Glass unicorn

Laura's specified favorite collection in the Menagerie. Only magical creature, symbolizes her uniqueness and her fragility.

Blue roses symbolism

blue often symbolize sadness and loneliness, while roses symbolize delicate and fragility.

Metonomy

A figure of speech in which the name of some object or idea is substituted for another

Genre of the great Gatsby

Modernism

Themes of Great Gatsby

Desire to redo or return to the past; Vanity of wealth and worldly success